Manager, Business Analytics

Elfbeauty; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity

Flexible time off

Half-day Fridays

Hybrid work model

Job summary

e.l.f. Beauty is seeking a Manager, Business Analytics in the UK to deliver forecasting, reporting and analytics supporting FP&A decisions. You will focus on monthly sales, margin forecasting, close processes, and S&OP collaboration with cross-functional partners.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in financial analysis within CPG/retail, strong Excel modeling, and experience with PowerBI/Tableau and SAP S/4HANA; FP&A tools like Vena/Anaplan are a plus—hybrid work in London or nearby.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience.
• CPG or retail industry experience.
• Undergraduate degree with emphasis in finance or economics.
• Advanced Excel modelling skills.
• Strong working knowledge of FP&A concepts.
• Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau).
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience with Vena or equivalent FP&A planning tool.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly sales and margin forecasting processes on FP&A team.
• Participate in monthly close, researching variances vs forecast/year.
• Provide management reporting and variance analysis with insights.
• Active participant in monthly S&OP process, challenge assumptions and quantify risks/opportunities.
• Collaborate on pricing, costing, and other analytics.
• Work with cross-functional teams to optimize reporting of forecasts vs actuals.
• Participate in training and model documentation to improve tool adoption.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Storytelling with data

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Finance/Economics degree

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

SAP S/4HANA

Vena

Adaptive

Anaplan

Oracle Analytics Cloud

Job description

About the Company

e.l.f. Beauty's purpose is to make the world a better place for every eye, lip, and face.

Our deep commitment to clean, cruelty free beauty at an incredible value has fueled the success of our flagship brand e.l.f. Cosmetics since 2004 and driven our portfolio expansion. Today, our multi-brand portfolio includes e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, e.l.f. Hair, Well People, Naturium and rhode.

In our Fiscal year 26, we had net sales of $1.6 Billion and our business performance has been nothing short of extraordinary with 7 consecutive years of net sales growth. This consistent, category-leading growth is a testament to the strength of our team, strategy, and portfolio of brands.

Our total compensation philosophy offers every full-time new hire competitive pay and benefits, bonus eligibility (200% of target over the last seven fiscal years), equity, flexible time off, year-round half-day Fridays, and a hybrid 3 day in office, 2 day at home work environment. We believe the combination of our unique culture, total compensation, workplace flexibility and care for the team is unmatched across not just beauty but any industry.

Visit our Career Page to learn more about our team: https://www.elfbeauty.com/work-with-us

The Manager, Business Analytics will use analytic and problem-solving skills to provide in-depth and insightful analytical support to optimize decision making at e.l.f. Beauty UK Limited, with a focus on forecasting, reporting and analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Support all aspects of monthly sales and margin forecasting processes on the FP&A team.
• Participate in the monthly financial close process, researching sales and margin impacts vs forecast and prior year.
• Provide management reporting and variance analysis including insightful analysis to explain trends.
• Active participant in the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, comfortable challenging teams on assumptions, quantifying sales risks, and opportunities for finance leadership.
• Collaborate with business partners on pricing, costing, and other adhoc analytics.
• Work with cross functional teams to create and optimize reporting to clearly convey forecasts and actual results.
• Participate in user training and model documentation to improve expertise and expand the adoption of planning and reporting tools across the organization.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience.
• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or retail industry experience.
• Undergraduate degree with an emphasis in finance or economics.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills, both in building new models and streamlining existing models.
• A strong working knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, and accounting concepts.
• Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.).
• SAP S/4HANA experience.
• Experience with Vena or an equivalent SaaS FP&A planning tool (Adaptive, Anaplan, Oracle Analytics Cloud).

Personal Attributes and Capabilities:

• Can convert complex analyses into business insights, a strong curiosity to dig into the numbers and tell the story.
• Operates with minimal supervision and can make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• Solution orientated and innovative with the desire to bring ideas forward and get involved in all areas of the business.
• Attention to detail, high integrity, self-aware, humble.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this position. It also reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job identified, and shall not be considered, as detailed description of all the work required inherent in the job. It is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, and it is subject to changes and exceptions at the supervisors’ discretion.

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